Is bordem more common in those with Aspergers/ASD than NTs?

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I am often, always extremely bored. I crave company, drama, entertainment. I am happy only when I am reading but I cant read all day long. I am insanely bored while working, unless it is work I find interesting. I do enjoy going out for drives though, and going out in general where there is stuff happening, and if there is photogenic stuff going on... I also like to see the animals grazing while I am out driving, they are often doing something entertaining....

I once started a thread asking if anyone else ever gets bored, because I'm not sure if I've ever felt that particular emotion. Once anything that would be akin to the feeling of boredom creeps in my mind goes on autopilot to the world inside my head. There's always something interesting to think about, even if I can't move physically, ie; waiting at a dr. office.

I can, and do, however feel restless. The difference, to me, is that restless twinge of anxiety added, where bored doesn't.

I wouldn't be surprised. Boredom is linked to inattention, and the two link to depression. I read some science on it, and I noticed it in myself. I suffered very badly from boredom. A good cure is meditation.

I lost the source, but here's some stuff I quoted on my blog a long time ago that had meaning for me, before I self diagnosed as AS.

I don't know about other people, but I get lonely, rather than bored. Don't get me wrong, I like having a boyfriend, but when he's not around, I don't have any friends to talk to. I talk to my family, my classmates, and the people I volunteer with (I volunteer at a local hospital), but it's not the same thing. I see my family all the time, and I don't have anything in common with my classmates or the other volunteers, since they are either younger or older than me. I love my family, and I like talking to my classmates, and the people I volunteer with, but like I said, it's not the same thing. Sometimes, I get bored, though. I get tired of studying, and I live in a city where there's not much to do. But more often than not, I get lonely.
Angela

i don't really get bored (although all my life people have frequently told me i looked bored) unless maybe stuck listening to someone talk that doesn't have anything interesting to say (ok, i'm sure i was bored the few times i was forced to go to church).

but alone, virtually never.

I tend to get bored once I've burned myself out on an interest and have to move onto something else (knowing what to move onto is/can be an issue). For instance, I played Dragon Age for several weeks and before having a chance to finish it, burned out and went for Dawn of War II . . . now I'm at Neverwinter Nights.

My AS son claims to be bored ALL the time, but I've learned that what it means is really, "there is something I want to do but I can't do it at the moment and because I can't do it and there is nothing different I want to do I'm bored." It's the lock onto the one idea of what he wants to do that freezes him. Wanting to play a rpg when no one is available to play with him, or wanting to test out an invention idea when he doesn't have the right materials (and doesn't think he could find them to buy them). Stuff like that.

I think it is easier for NT to just go with the flow and select something else that is actually currently available.

As my son gets older and has assembled more of his own resources hopefully the number of situations in which it happens will go down.

I only get bored when there are other people around.
Alone, never bored, I can slip into a reverie, think about the things that I want to think about, and philosophize as much as I could want. What more could one ask for in this world?

When others are around, I find myself constantly looking for ways to entertain them and/or myself. After a time, if there isn't anything "real" going on, I do get quite bored, start pacing. And if the "real" thing going on isn't something I know a bit about and/or enjoy... I can deal with it and participate for a while, but then I start to get REALLY bored.